Histamine low diet and low salicylate diet

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Hi. I havent been at this netgroup for a long time, but I would like to share

some of my good experiences of controlling Samters with a histamine low diet.

I have had Samters for 16 years now, and during the last 14 years I have had 5

operations to remove polyps. Actually I didnt start with a diagnose of Samters,

but with a diagnose of salicylate-sensitivity with symptoms of headache

(migraine), reddening of the face, a runny nose and asthma.

I started on a low salicylate diet and then I could avoid the headache attacks

and the other symptoms declined too.

Still after a couple of years I started to develop polyps, got a recurrent

sinusitis and started on periodical operations. After the operation the polyps

usually started to grow again after 5 - 6 months and the sinusitis started all

over again.

In the period before my latest operation (1½ year ago)I started to look more at

my symptoms, I compared the periods, when the sinuses produced a lot of mucus,

to the stuff I ate the day before. And I found that I had reactions from some of

the foods which were OK in the low sal diet.

I have always been very fond of chocolate but I noticed that I always got an

reaction with a lot of mucus the day after eating chocolate. Dark chocolate gave

symptoms like influenza. Tea brought the same reactions. After some studying on

the web I found that I had an reaction on histamine rich food. I started a

histamine low diet (together with the low sal diet) and my sinuses were suddenly

dry and not producing mucus anymore!!

I had the polyps removed February 2010, and since then I have followed boths

diets. Since the operation I have had only one short cold with a little bit of

mucus from the sinuses, the rest of the time they have been dry and not

bothering at all.

My sense of smell disappears for weeks and then returns for a couple of days,

but that is a small problem compared to the recurrent sinusitis in the past.

Liselotte